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Chapter 7
Bringing Process
Maturity to an R&D
Culture
Scenario and Real Case Study Facts:
In this chapter, you will learn about GEAR,
an R&D organization that had succeeded based largely on the skills and talents of its
people, and its ability to respond rapidly to changing customer needs. But today,
GEAR is facing new challenges brought on by this success. GEAR is moving out of
the R&D world, and into a much larger world of fixed cost and schedule programs.
Its success has led to rapid growth and new opportunities, but its parent company is
concerned that GEAR's agility—which in large part brought its current success—is
now more of a risk than an asset to the organization.
7.1 What You Will Learn in This Chapter
• Practical and proven techniques to help an organization with the hardest
part of process improvement—process deployment and compliance
• A proven process tailoring technique to help you deploy processes more
effectively and efficiently
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